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Italy
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
80
Citations
48235
World Ranking
270
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Luigi Guiso is affiliated with the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Italy. Their research spans several main fields including Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Accounting, Demography, and Finance.

Their body of work addresses a range of topics, notably Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Housing Market and Economics, Corruption and Economic Development, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, and Social Capital and Networks.

Luigi Guiso has published frequently in several venues, with notable contributions in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Economica, Econometrica, and the Journal of Public Economics.

Among recent papers, the following are highlighted:

  • Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth, 2020, Econometrica
  • Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-19, 2021, Journal of Public Economics
  • The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market, 2021, Journal of Financial Economics
  • Economic insecurity and the demand for populism in Europe, 2024, Economica
  • From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws, 2021, American Economic Review

Frequent co-authors include Massimo Morelli, Luigi Pistaferri, Claudio Michelacci, Andreas Fagereng, and Helios Herrera. Collaboration with these researchers appears multiple times, indicating ongoing partnerships in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development

    Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • Does culture affect economic outcomes

    Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • Trusting the stock market

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • People's opium? Religion and economic attitudes

    Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • Does Local Financial Development Matter

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • RISK AVERSION, WEALTH, AND BACKGROUND RISK

    Luigi Guiso;Monica Paiella

  • Long Term Persistence

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Income Risk, Borrowing Constraints, and Portfolio Choice

    Luigi Guiso;Tullio Jappelli;Daniele Terlizzese

  • Time Varying Risk Aversion

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • The Value of Corporate Culture

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Multiple versus Single Banking Relationships: Theory and Evidence

    Enrica Detragiache;Paolo Garella;Luigi Guiso

  • Investment and Demand Uncertainty

    Luigi Guiso;Giuseppe Parigi

  • Earnings Uncertainty and Precautionary Saving

    Luigi Guiso;Tullio Jappelli;Daniele Terlizzese

  • Social Capital as Good Culture

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • The Determinants of Attitudes towards Strategic Default on Mortgages

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Civic Capital as the Missing Link

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Awareness and Stock Market Participation

    Luigi Guiso;Tullio Jappelli

  • Insurance within the Firm

    Luigi Guiso;Luigi Pistaferri;Fabiano Schivardi

  • Alfred Marshall lecture: social capital as good culture

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Paola Sapienza;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales University of Chicago
Paola Sapienza
Paola Sapienza Northwestern University
Tullio Jappelli
Tullio Jappelli University of Naples Federico II
Luigi Pistaferri
Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University
Fabiano Schivardi
Fabiano Schivardi Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Giancarlo Corsetti
Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Xavier Vives
Xavier Vives University of Navarra
Gilles Saint-Paul
Gilles Saint-Paul Paris School of Economics

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